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FISHER, ALVAN (17921863)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 427 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FISHER, ALVAN (17921863) , American portrait-painter, was born at Needham,
Massachusetts
 , on the 9th of August 1792. At the age of eighteen he was a clerk in a country shop, and subsequently was employed by the
village
 
house
  painter, but at the age of twenty-two he began to paint portrait heads, alternating with rural scenes and animals, for which he found patrons at modest prices. In ten years he had saved enough to go to Europe, studying at the Paris schools and copying in the galleries of the Louvre. Upon his return he became one of the recognized group of
Massachusetts
  portrait-painters. Along with Doughty, Harding and Alexander, in 1831, he held an exhibition of his
work
  in Bostonperhaps the first
joint
  display by painters ever held in that city. Though he had considerable talent for landscape, a lack of patronage for such
work
  caused him to confine himself to
portraiture
 , in which he was moderately successful. He died at
Dedham
 ,
Mass
 ., on the 16th of
February
  1863.


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